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Book Dish: Class Mothers & Tabloid Love

I always love a good book based in NYC. Such drama can happen there. Such bustle. The last two books I have read have happened to take place in the big city but with 2 very different themes.

In Class Mothers, a sequel to last year's Yoga Mama's which we reviewed and were quoted on the Class Mothers jacket for, Laura is a mom trying to keep up with the Jones' (as you would say) in Manhattan. In Tabloid Love, the diary of a reporter for The NY Post comes to life and practically jumps off the page at you and you just keep hoping she will catch a break.

It's always hustle and bustle and may the best woman, mother, reporter, (sometimes I am convinced that they are insane) character win.


Class Mothers

From the publisher:
When her daughter wins a coveted scholarship to the prestigious Metropolitan preschool, Laura thinks she's struck the educational jackpot. Metropolitan is harder to get into than Harvard! She soon finds herself rubbing elbows with some of New York's top moms-wealthy socialites, sultry film stars, and driven business tycoons. These women have it all-and they want more. Now, Laura must secure Anna's future among New York's top-drawer toddlers. Even if it means jumping into the sandbox with some highly competitive mommies and daddies who do not play well with others..

From The Daily Stroll:

Laura is really up to something in this book, she has really come out of her shell and had me cracking up at her secret agent ways. Another great hit for Katherine Stewart and I can't wait for more!

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Tabloid Love


From Tabloid Love.com
…a soon-to-be-thirty Brit, newly-on-the-scene reporter for America’s most famous tabloid, the New York Post. While her friends back in London are tossing their bridal bouquets, Bridget is chasing down the next big story—and her dream of becoming a topnotch journalist. But just when she’s perfected the art of interviewing complete strangers about ghoulish crimes, finding a mate in the Big Apple proves downright, well, impossible.

As Bridget learns (the hard way) the vexing rules of dating in the ultimate singles city, a silver lining appears in her dating cloud: She lands her very own Post column about her quest for love. Each Sunday half a million New Yorkers read about her match-ups with urban Romeos, including a man who tells her she’d be “one hot chick if she made a bit more of an effort” (even though she’s wearing her Page Six pal’s designer cast-offs) and another who shoves her into a cab before she can say “bugger off.” Pursuing love under deadline, however, doesn’t make finding it any easier, especially when each week she has to run her copy by the very person she suspects might be the One.

Wonderfully funny, poignant, smart, and gossipy, in the best sense, about the New York/Hamptons set, this tale is every woman’s story of the quest to have it all: a great job, a true love-and a livable apartment. Which, after all, doesn’t seem so bloody much to ask, does it?


From The Daily Stroll
I LOVED this book, it was fast, it was exciting but the whole time I just kept thinking can this girl catch a break? You will root for her and continue to be shocked that this is in fact a true story. Harrison does a great job detailing the fascinating details of her life, and letting us live vicariously through it.


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